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Kimmel: Enterprise pricing software costs at least $150K to $200K annually

Mike Kimmel · What happens when a PHD professor in analytics launches a SaaS company? · Feb 14, 2023 · at 8:47

PriceSymmetrics founder Mike Kimmel explains the barrier to entry for small businesses attempting to access legacy enterprise pricing software.

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“You cannot get pricing software at less than, call it a 150,200 thousand dollars a year for an annual site license.”

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The claim, plainly

Enterprise pricing software cannot be purchased for less than roughly $150,000 to $200,000 per year for an annual site license.

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Assessment

The claim asserted that pricing software cannot be obtained for less than roughly $150,000 to $200,000 per year for an annual site license. As of February 2023, commercial pricing software across multiple market tiers was available well below this floor. Comprehensive enterprise-grade pricing and CPQ platforms like Pricefx documented base annual subscription licensing starting at $100,000 per year (with retail optimization platforms like Competera offering entry-level contracts around $50,000 to $100,000 per year), while broader pricing intelligence and dynamic repricing platforms (such as Prisync and Price2Spy) offered annual commercial subscriptions ranging from under $2,000 to approximately $12,000 per year.

Pricefx publicly documented in 2022 that base annual subscription licensing ranges from $100,000 to $3.5 million per year based on Revenue Under Management (RUM).
Competera entry-level enterprise pricing optimization contracts start in the $50,000 to $100,000 per year range.
Commercial pricing intelligence platforms such as Prisync and Price2Spy offered commercial annual plans starting between ~$500 and ~$11,500 per year.

Checked against

[1] prisync.com [2] yieldigo.com [3] pricefy.io [4] marketintelligencetools.com [5] price2spy.com [6] saasrat.com [7] competera.ai [8] dealavo.com

"Competera" pricing starting cost per year "pricefx" "subscription" "100,000" OR "50,000" OR "cost" "learning-center" Prisync pricing 2023 Price2Spy pricing plans 2023 enterprise pricing software cost per year Pricefx Competera Prisync Pricefx pricing cost per year "How Much Does Pricing Software Cost" "pricefx"

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